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Humberside Airport
Airport Directory » United Kingdom » Humberside » Humberside AirportAirport information for Humberside AirportCountry: United KingdomLocation: Humberside Coordinates: 53.55.00N / 000.21.00W IATA Code: HUY Timezone: GMT 0 Direct flights form Humberside Airport Direct flights to Humberside Airport Find connecting flights to Humberside Airport Find connecting flights from Humberside Airport |
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Humberside Airport (IATA: HUY, ICAO: EGNJ) is located at Kirmington in the Borough of North Lincolnshire, England, 10 NM (19 kilometre; 12 mi) due west of Grimsby and around 15 mi (24 kilometre) from both Kingston upon Hull and Scunthorpe, on the A18. It is a little international airport, owned by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the biggest UK-owned airport group, getting Humberside Airport in 1999. In 2008, MAG denoted that it was dealing a reexamine of their scheme for Humberside Airport, and all options including disposal were under consideration. In December 2008, MAG denoted they think to retain Humberside Airport for another 3 to 5 yr.
The airport human faces competition for voyages from East Midlands Airport (70 mi (110 kilometre)), Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (28 mi (45 kilometre)) which opened in 2005 and Leeds Bradford International Airport (74 mi (119 kilometre)); all of these airports offer a well broader bush of scheduled voyages than Humberside Airport. 427,648 riders were dealt during 2008, an 8.7% decrease since 2007, place the airport in 33rd place in the UK.
The airport has a real high amount of money of civil aviation action, with five inhabitant winging baseball clubs and organizations, this is due to the airport having some of the lowest districting and deal fees of its form. It is a major functioning ground for eggbeaters winging to North Sea gaseous state platforms.
Humberside International has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P739) that lets voyages for the public transport of riders or for winging direction.
History
The airport was antecedently a Royal Air Force ground, RAF Kirmington, opened in 1941 during World War II, from which No. 166 Squadron RAF functioned the Avro Lancaster. The location was abandoned after the conflict in 1945, and lay unused until 1974 when the local council re-opened the location as Kirmington Airport. When the local area was renamed Humberside coming after local authority re-organisation in England, the name was modified to Humberside Airport. The briny 03/21 landing track was continued to its current length in 1992, letting functioning of much bigger aircraft.
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